Palgrave Global Media Policy and Business

The Palgrave Global Media Policy and Business Series has published to date (2017) 15 volumes since its launch in 2012. Concentrating on the social, cultural, political, political-economic, institutional, and technological changes arising from the globalisation of media and communications industries, the series considers the impact of these changes on matters of business practice, regulation and policy, and social outcomes. The policy side encompasses the challenge of conceiving policy-making as a reiterative process that recurrently addresses such key challenges as inclusiveness, participation, industrial-labour relations, universal access and freedom in an increasingly globalized and transnationalized world. The business side encompasses a political economy approach that looks at the power of transnational corporations in specific contexts - and the controversies associated with these global conglomerates. The business side considers as well the emergence of small and medium media enterprises. Focusing on issues of media convergence, industry concentration, and new communications practices, the series analyses the tensions between systems based on national decision-making and publicly-oriented participatory structures and a more global perspective demarcated by commercialization, privatization and monopolization. Based on a multi-disciplinary approach, the series tackles three key questions: • To what extent do new media developments require changes in regulatory philosophy and objectives? • To what extent do new technologies and changing media consumption require changes in business practices and models? • And to what extent do privatisation, globalisation, and commercialisation alter the creative freedom, cultural and political diversity, and public accountability of media enterprises? Editorial Advisory Board Sandra Braman, UM-Milwaukee, USA Peter Dahlgren, Lund University, Sweden Charles Fombad, University of Pretoria, South Africa Manuel Alejandro Guerrero, Universidad Iberoamericana, Mexico Alison Harcourt, University of Exeter, UK Robin Mansell, LSE, UK Richard Maxwell, Queen’s College – CNUY, USA Toby Miller, City University London, UK Zizi Papacharissi, University of Illinois-Chicago, USA Stylianos Papathanassopoulos, National & Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece Caroline Pauwels, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium Robert Picard, University of Oxford, UK Kiran Prasad, Sri Padmavati Mahila University, India Marc Raboy, McGill University, Canada Chang Yong Son, Korean Communications Commission Miklos Sukosd, University of Hong Kong Kenton T. Wilkinson, Texas Tech University, USA Sugmin Youn, Seoul National University, Korea Roderick Flynn, Dublin City University Manjunath Pendukur, Florida Atlantic University Deepa Kumar, Rutgers University Winston Mano, University of Westminster